Safety Orientation Quiz
Circle the correct letter response to the following questions:
- HIPAA limits how we use and share patient information.
- True
- False
- Suspected violations to patient privacy or security should be reported.
- True
- False
- Which of the following are considered Protected Patient Information?
- A clinic schedule
- A patient’s lab result
- Meal delivery report
- A patient’s bill
- All of the above
- Primary causes of fires in healthcare settings are related to smoking and electrical problems.
- True
- False
- Red alert is not the announcement for a fire.
- True
- False
- If you have to respond to a fire you should remember the word
- CRASH
- SPACE
- DASH
- RACE
- In case of fire, you should activate the pull station to get assistance.
- True
- False
- Which of these activities or items are allowed in the medical center
- Smoking inside the building
- Electrical equipment with two-pronged plugs
- Frayed electrical cords with bare wire exposed
- Electrical equipment with three-pronged plugs and Heavy Duty power strips
- The meaning of standard precautions is “treat all human blood and other potentially hazardous material as if they were infected with bloodborne pathogens.
- True
- False
- How often should you clean your hands after touching a Patient’s skin (to take a B/P or other procedure)?
- After each patient
- At the end of each shift
- Before your meal break
- Which method should you use to clean your hands at work?
- Soap and water
- Antibacterial soap and water
- Alcohol based hand gel
- All of the above
- Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) has an adult and a pediatric CPR Team?
- True
- False
- Students must identify the correct emergency response plan for their area.
- True
- False
- Each of the following incidents/accidents must be reported to the Risk Management or Privacy office except:
- Patient or Visitor slips and falls
- Patient complains about a violation of privacy
- Spill on floor in a public bathroom
- Medication Error
- If you see a patient or visitor slip and fall, what are the two actions you must take?
- Discuss it with your student group
- Help the person
- Report it to your instructor
- Provide information for the VUMC employee to prepare the appropriate report
- Veritas On line reports are completed for incidents/accidents that occur in a non patient
care area.
- True
- False
- The overhead message for a missing child (age 1- 12) is
- Code Walker child
- Code Young Person
- Code Green
- Code Purple
- What is the overhead message for a missing adult?
- Code Missing Adult
- Code Walker Adult
- Code Pink
- Code Adam Adult
- The overhead message Code Yellow is used to activate the Code Team.
- True
- False
- The overhead message Code Orange is used to alert hospital personnel
- About a possible fire situation
- To activate the emergency preparedness plan
- To prepare to activate the emergency preparedness plan
- About a missing patient
- Verbal or physical abuse of staff is acceptable behavior.
- True
- False
- What are ways to show care and concern to all patients?
- A kind voice
- Body language
- Facial expression
- All of the above